My developer processed the update for the plugin and then Google was denied access to crawling my pages and it is blocking urls’s. Page wp-app.php/service is returning a 403 requiring log in and password, when these are not provided it returns a 403 error code. It appears that all of my post pages have dropped from search, in some cases my home page is appearing. Could you please advise if there is something we should have been doing to the settings. I spoke with my hosting provider today and apparently changes were made to the wp-app.php files. I apologize if I am not providing the appropriate details but I am not at all technically inclined.

I am not sure what’s going on but yesterday my hosting provider said the htaccess file was changed and they led me to believe this was there and it probably shouldn’t be”

“calling up interface module for Apache Server”

I’m sorry I am not at all versed on the technical side of my site. I hire someone to take care of everything tech related. I don’t even know how to update plugins, again I hire someone. All I know is something changed after the plugin was updated.

Hoping someone can help me find the issue. I went as far as asking Google for a site reconsideration an they’ve replied with there was no manual penalization but the problem could be the Server Architecture (not sure what that means) and site access.

I understand you’re facing some kind of issue but your description of it doesn’t enable me to help you any more at this point. To be honest I don’t think either of us clearly understand what the problem consists of.

I’d still suggest updating WordPress and the plugin to their latest versions but I don’t see why that would solve anything.

Again, to help you any further I’d need to look into your setup. If you feel like it do get in touch by email (you can find it at the bottom of my homepage).

Have you had any luck resolving this issue? I have had the same problem and I didn’t want to disable all my plugins one by one to get to the bottom of it so I disallowed access to it from my robots.txt. I thought this had done the trick as it got rid of the error in Webmaster Tools but my home page hasn’t returned to the SERPs yet. I done this over a month ago.

I know this may sound like a “too easy to work” solution…..but I simply turned off the Remote Publishing setting in the Writing Options within the Dashboard.

I did this over 3 years ago and I’ve not seen that error come up at all for my site and I’ve not lost any page rank or homepage visibility.

Oh I’m sure you can modify your robots.txt file, or your .htaccess file and even modify the url but I wouldn’t suggest any of those.

What did I do? I disabled it because its “optional” and unless your going to use a desktop remote publishing client its a waste of time having it toggled on. I then for the sake of crawling errors set up a “redirect” by using a Redirection tool and then redirected the url to my homepage.

However, I’m not suggesting you do any of these…I just wanted to share what has worked for me and I’m not seeing any issues.